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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1890
Page
3
A narrator recalls Meta a beautiful charming aspiring stage artist dragged by society into a world of champagne luxury and mystery. Her life intersects a wealthy plutocratic circle then ends in death blamed on heart failure leaving a vial that hints at a different fate.
A garbled OCR fragment cites New York currency fraud counts in the city, a Cincinnati ramatory cremations, Catskills boarding houses popular with city bookkeepers, a Savannah clock and timekeeping, and French tax exemptions tied to large families.
A fragmentary newspaper note recalls a wedding breakfast scene with a toast to the bridegroom. Names and details are garbled, including references to West mabam Miss Austin and a lordly relative, but the passage lacks clear event or outcome.
The article describes English young women enjoying outdoor amusements in warm weather and outlines Redfern’s new afternoon toilettes. It highlights outfits, including a lawn suit with indigo embroidered border, a pale rose china silk gown with blue sash, and a pale straw etamine ensemble with maize and violet accents, all presenting a lively Belle Epoque fashion scene.
Fragmented humorous snippets from a domestic scene with children and a warning about education. The pieces include a child’s dialogue about knowledge, a mother’s scolding, and a boast about a fictional household. The closing line promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as a tonic for aging.
The advertisement promotes a Niagara Falls excursion on the popular Big Four route on Tuesday August 1 1890 with a round trip price of 6.00 dollars. Toronto and return 6.00 dollars Thousand Islands 10.00 dollars and a stop at Chautauqua. Tickets available at the Big Four offices with limited car accommodations. See the ad in another part of the paper for details. Also mentions weekly shoe bargains at Buffalo store 66 E Washington.
Indianapolis city bids invite sealed proposals Sept. 15 1890 for Archer street gutter bowldering grading curbing and brick paving east sidewalk and for Merrill street roadway grading bowldering brick sidewalks with stone curbing and river gravel. Projects reference S. O. 123 1890 and S. O. 135.
The document outlines multiple 1890 contracts for grading and paving brick sidewalks on Ruckle Bellefontaine Home Pine and Cincinnati streets with eight inches of sand, curb edges and bowlders, plus guttering, lawns, and double walk-stones. It specifies stakes by the City Civil Engineer, stone bowldering, and completion to engineer approval with bids for bridges.
An early 20th century advertisement touts a "kidney cure" claiming rapid relief of urinary troubles. It promotes a product sold per box or by mail from a company in Ohio, with references to direct order details and distributors, using sensational language typical of period medical ads.
An advertising notice promises an elegant safety bicycle to any boy or girl in Indianapolis who signs up a target number of Sun subscriptions. The offer varies by payment plan from 12 yearly customers to 145 one month customers, with routes counted for existing sellers. Subscriptions must be prepaid and reported to the Sun superintendent by October 1 for delivery.
An old Sun subscription drive offers a safety bicycle to the country agent who increases his list the most before October 1. Subscriptions must be for at least one month and paid in full by Oct 1, with regular commission retained. Open to existing 500 agents and new towns where The Sun is not yet circulated.
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